Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tariff Bill, passed by the House and now pondered through the hot summer days by the Senate Finance Committee, became more than a domestic matter when 43 protests against its high rates were filed with the U. S. State Department by the diplomatic representatives of 25 countries. Collectively, politely, the protests told the U. S. that increased tariff schedules might prove injurious to that expansion of U. S. foreign trade so anxiously desired by President Hoover...
Suits. Much in evidence, mannish, some times sleekly furred. Their jackets favor fingertip lengths, have revers and collars. Many have no buttons. The blouses carry over from the summer, have no sleeves...
...taken from a musical comedy popular several years ago -something about a football player who had gone into the bond business, and his boss, and the boss's wife, and his secretary. There were good tunes in it; you heard them wherever you went to dance that summer. The tunes are gone from this version, also the chorus with big hats and little parasols, but the musical comedy atmosphere is left, inconsequential and agreeable. Before the football player has married the secretary and escaped the trap the boss was laying for him, you have stopped paying attention without having...
Criticism of U. S. teachers came last week from Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, addressing the annual convocation of summer students at Columbia University. Said Dr. Coffin: ". . . Brachiopod teachers are at fault. Brachiopods are mollusk-like creatures, the most ancient inhabitants of this planet, which have always reproduced their own species, but never had any part in the evolution of other living creatures. . . . There are brachiopod teachers who transmit their own minds but do not stimulate students to advance human knowledge...
...Chicago, plans were afoot last week for a World's Fair Symphony Band, to be sent, after a Chicago contest, to other U. S. cities to advertise the 1933 World's Fair. Chicago musicians, under famed U. S. bandmasters, will compete this summer in Chicago parks. The Fair-conscious Chicago Daily News guaranteed funds for five concerts, published a plea for funds for 40 more...